Kathrynn Seidler Engberg

The Right to Write (eBook, ePUB)

The Literary Politics of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Right to Write examines how the early American poets Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley gained agency within a traditionally patriarchal field of literary production. Tracing the careers of Bradstreet and Wheatley through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Engberg shows that these women used their positions within society to network themselves into publication. Each woman represents a unique way in which a majority of early American women negotiated their roles as both women and writers while influencing the political and social fabric of the new republic. Examining the context in which these women worked, Engberg provides a window into the social conditions and aesthetic decisions they negotiated in order to write. This is not simply a historical and literary examination of the field of literary production; this study provides new conceptions of early American women's writing that are valuable to feminist inquiry. Engberg's research is innovative and recaptures a part of early American literary history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761846109
• Artikelnr.: 38484340

Autorenporträt

Kathrynn Seidler Engberg, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Alabama A&M University and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction: Remember the Ladies
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Anne Bradstreet
Part 5 I. To Be a Woman in Print: Prefatory Politics
Part 6 II. From Coterie to Print: The Promiscuity of Public Exchange
Part 7 III. "To Play the Rex"
Part 8 IV. Vexed by Vanity, She Speaks Her Mind
Chapter 9 Chapter 2: Phillis Wheatley
Part 10 I. To Be a Slave in Print: Prefatory Politics
Part 11 II. The Power Of Passivity: Phillis's Poetics
Part 12 III. "In Vain the Feather'd Warblers Sing"
Chapter 13 Conclusion: Female Poets in Nineteenth Century America
Chapter 14 Works Cited